HUNTINGTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals will hear cases in Huntington on Tuesday as part of the Marshall University Constitution Week celebration.

The Supreme Court will convene at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center and hear arguments on the following cases:

State of West Virginia v. John R. Mullens; State of West Virginia v. Linda S. Sigler aka Linda S. Mullens.

Charleston Town Center Co., LP v. The West Virginia HRC and Steven and Cynthia Bumpus; Charleston Town Center Co., LP v. The West Virginia HRC and August Robinson.

State of West Virginia v. Michael E. Martin.

State of West Virginia v. Ronnie Allen Rush.

Also Tuesday, Chief Justice Brent Benjamin will moderate a panel discussion, "Blogging and the potential limits of the First Amendment" at 2 p.m. in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. The discussion is open to the public.

Members of the panel include Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C.; Gene Policinski, vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University; Howard J. Bashman, an appellate attorney in suburban Philadelphia who has a blog, howappealinglaw. com; Kevin Qualls, attorney and professor of Media Law at Murray State University in Kentucky; and Dr. Corley Dennison, dean of Marshall's W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

On Wednesday, Sept. 23, and Thursday, Sept. 24, former congressmen Dawson Mathis, a Democrat from Georgia, and Ed Foreman, a Republican from Texas will be on campus meeting with various student groups, including political organizations and honoraries as part of "Congress on Campus."

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